Folks throughout the northern Caribbean had been digging out from the destruction of Hurricane Melissa Thursday as deaths from the catastrophic storm climbed and it moved over the Bahamas and turned towards Bermuda.
The rumble of huge equipment, whine of chainsaws and chopping of machetes echoed all through southeast Jamaica as authorities staff and residents started clearing roads in a push to achieve remoted communities that sustained a direct hit from one of the most powerful Atlantic storms on record.
Shocked residents wandered about, some observing their roofless houses and waterlogged belongings strewn round them.
Emergency reduction flights started touchdown at Jamaica’s fundamental worldwide airport, which reopened late Wednesday, as crews distributed water, meals and different primary provides.
“The devastation is big,” Jamaican Transportation Minister Daryl Vaz mentioned.
RICARDO MAKYN /AFP through Getty Pictures 
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